Our colleague Anna IMRE represented the HIERD at the 2nd meeting of the ET2020 working group on schools policy on the 29th and 30th April 2014, in Brussels.

The two main topics covered by the working group at the meeting were early school leaving and teacher education. Plenary sessions were followed by subgroup discussions, where representatives could report about the situation in their respective countries. During the meeting, participants all followed Yammer training, which is a program facilitating quick and effective business communication. The next day began with the presentation of the ‘PREVENT – Involving parents in the prevention of early school leaving’ project, and then continued with that of the 2nd Chance Study. Discussion in the subgroups revolved around the European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) and Commission studies about policies to improve the attractiveness of the teaching profession and policies on innovative pedagogies in the parallel section. A first draft of a common work schedule of the two subgroups was accepted.

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The third workshop organized for the Hungarian partner schools of the Erasmus+ Student Voice – Bridge to Learning project came to pass on the 28th of June.artner schools of the Erasmus+ Student Voice – Bridge to Learning project came to pass on the 28th of June.

The first workshop organized for the partner schools was held on 7th March 2017 at EKU- HIERD (Eszterházy Károly University Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development) covered the following topic: Student voice and the student-focused learning.

The second Student Voice project meeting was held in Dublin, Ireland on 18-19th January with the participation of the five partner institutions from Ireland, Scotland, Hungary, Slovenia, and The Netherlands. The purpose of the meeting was to prepare evaluation tools at national and transnational level and plan further steps of the project.

Representatives of the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development (HIERD) Lucia Kákonyi, manager of the Student Voice – The Bridge to Learning project in Hungary, and Gábor Rózsa, IT expert, took part in the first project partnership meeting of the ERASMUS+ Student Voice project which took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Leaders of the HIERD (Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development) met Lauren Conn and Stacie Kronthal, representatives of Discovery Education at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

On the last week of November two representatives of the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development (HIERD), József Kaposi (director general) and Zoltán Pompor (deputy director general) will visit the USC Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles.

The Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development (HIERD) had the pleasure to host seven members of the staff of the Malakoff School in Moss, Norway on the 26th of October 2016 who came to learn more about the Hungarian educational system and the local Eco-School Network.